hard drive performance

[oliver]

2.6 ghz p4 / 80 g seagate drive / xp home / drive 50%
full / defrag often / ran seagate utilities - reported
very good numbers " read and write etc" from dos but have
poor performance from windows xp. sequential read and
sequential write scores are around 19 megs per sec. (
very low) my work pc 1.6 ghz p4 does almost twice the
data. Solutions? Possible format etc?

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

Depending on your system (specifically, the chipset on your motherboard),
you may need to install chipset drivers from your computer (or motherboard)
manufacturer.

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"oliver" > wrote in message
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> 2.6 ghz p4 / 80 g seagate drive / xp home / drive 50%
> full / defrag often / ran seagate utilities - reported
> very good numbers " read and write etc" from dos but have
> poor performance from windows xp. sequential read and
> sequential write scores are around 19 megs per sec. (
> very low) my work pc 1.6 ghz p4 does almost twice the
> data. Solutions? Possible format etc?